Natalie O’Brien reports: The personal details of millions of Vodafone customers, including their names, home addresses, driver’s licence numbers and credit card details, have been publicly available on the internet in what is being described as an ”unbelievable” lapse in security by the mobile phone giant. The Sun-Herald is aware of criminal groups paying for…
Category: Exposure
FL: Social Security Numbers Found on Duval County Website
Maria Will knows to be careful on the internet, especially with private information like bank account and Social Security numbers. “Anybody can put an address in and pull up anything,” said Will. But she didn’t realize some of that protected information can be found on a government website. In at least one case, there was…
Seabury & Smith service reports security breach
Marsh U.S. Consumer, a Seabury & Smith service, recently reported a security breach to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office. The benefits plan provider reported that due to a programming error and transmission of incorrect URLs, a dedicated server for its client, ITT Corporation, was exposing some ITT employees’ benefits plan personal information to other employees…
PinnacleHealth notifies patients that a medical transcription service breach exposing patient records went undetected for two years
Another breach involving a transcription service. This time, it’s PinnacleHealth System in Pennsylvania, who recently reported an incident to HHS involving Gair Medical Transcription Services. On December 17, PinnacleHealth issued a press release that indicates that the breach may have occurred back in 2008, but was only detected when someone searching for something online stumbled across…
Update on White Rock Networks breach
Yesterday, I reported on a breach reported by WFAA in Texas, where boxes of intact personnel records, some containing Social Security Numbers and even medical information on employees, had been found next to a public dumpster in Plano. As Brad Watson of WFAA reported, White Rock Networks had gone bankrupt in 2006 and its assets were…
Sensitive Scottish court records discovered at recycling bank
A press release from the UK ICO: The Scottish Court Service breached the Data Protection Act by failing to take sufficient steps to prevent court documents containing sensitive personal details being accidentally disposed of at a local recycling bank in Glasgow, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today. The ICO was first made aware of…